It started off with the "Monday Night Dinner" girls having a night out at a place called Clyde's Tower Oaks Lodge. When we found out that it was half of bottles of vino, we knew we were going to have a good time, but little did we know the rest of Rockville was going to be having a good time with us. As we pulled up to the place, I wasn't sure if I should have had my tennis racket with me or brought my skis. It was the last thing I was expecting.
The place was packed! It had all sorts of people, dressed up (not us) to the more casual (definitely us). Lil Liu and I tried the Carolina Mason Jar which was a mason jar (duh) packed with all sorts of deliciousness. I would have taken a photo, but I don't need to be reminded of what I ate. I think next time we go, we'll be more prepared to have a great time, but sometimes the nights you're not prepared for are when you have the most fun! (That's for talking about Saturday, oy.)
Tuesday rolls around and was a day that I probably won't ever forget. I think that sounds very dramatic, but at the time, it was. The work day was going just as it always does. Allison made a little pit stop at my desk to chat and as we're gossiping (about lumberjacks I'm sure) the ground started to shake. It was a little weird, the thought of the people doing construction outside of our building crossed my mind, but was quickly erased when the whole building started to shake. I don't mean a little shake either, it was a full on things rattling off desks and when we heard furniture on the floor above us falling, we immediately thought the worse. Being that our building is right next to the Capitol, of course you can't help but think that we might have been under attack. Allison and I panicked and the two other coworkers in my corner ran out of the office. Allison went into "beast mode" and flew down all the stairs, and when I mean flew, I mean I don't think she touched any of the steps.
I like to think this is what it looked like.
As we waited outside we only got more scared hearing that The Hill was being evacuated, but couldn't really see if anything was going on. Once word got around that it was an earthquake we were allowed to go in the building to gather our belongings and leave for the day. I'm thinking it wasn't a coincidence this earthquake just around the time that happy hour started. No? Either way, as we watched the news it was kind of crazy to think we experienced it, only 87 miles from where it originated.
On Wednesday, I celebrated Allison's birthday at dinner with her family and friends at a restaurant called Founding Farmers. It. Was. Amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone in the DC area, if you haven't tried it. I'm sure I might be the only one who hasn't, but it was delicious. Two thumbs up. Way up.
Finally my birthday made it on Friday. I was glad it was on a weekend this year and I celebrated with Allison and Kate. We enjoyed happy hour at Dirty Martini in Dupont and once we felt like we weren't dressed for the occasion (no one told us that it was New Years Eve) we headed to a new place called Jack Rose. It had a great rooftop bar that is going to be amazing in the fall when it's not so hot and the men start wearing their plaid flannel. :) Seemed like a perfect place for them to wear it.
(or I'd just take Ryan Gosling. He doesn't even have to wear the plaid)
Saturday, ohhh Saturday. My head hurts to think about you. Like I said before, it always seems to be the nights when you don't plan on much, that all the crazy happens. So, all week, everyone was talking about this Irene and how she was going to wreak havoc on the east coast and no one should be outside. Well, that didn't stop us from celebrating Allison's birthday. We found out a bar, Sign of the Whale, was having a hurricane party. Perfect. So we headed there and made tons of new friends. Friends wearing their swim trunks, friends wearing their snorkel gear. Friends from Cali, friends from Wyoming. It was just a very friendly night. Seeing that it was our birthday weekend, we only felt it was appropriate to make friends with the DJ who was so nice enough to rock our favorite country songs (of course in between any songs having to do with natural disasters.) While we were there, I guess that's when the worst of it hit DC.
Thankfully, the worst of it wasn't terrible and we just got a lot of rain. There were some parts of the city with trees just laying on tops of cars but I know we should be grateful for the lack of damage it did compared to the rest of the east coast.
This week is one to rest up for sure. I can't wait for Labor Day to go up to PA and spend it with my family.
Until the next time,
-S
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